FaithNolan- Faithnet Newsletter Spring 2015

Dear Friends , I continue with a love filled heart laughing joking and voicing my opposition in my songs and actions because I know the 1% can nevr overtake me and my mother earth, I know the sun will outshine, the waters will flow and the earth will grow regardless of the foolish greed of the 1%. As always as capitalism dies of its greed, in it's struggle to survive it must continue to more and more voraciously gobble up and hoard all the earths resources for the pathological greed of the 1%. Art. music, dance, theatre, being a powerful voice/outlet for social change is , being bought up more and more by bankster gangsters, they hope to control ouroutlet for democratic dissent , Toronto Pride is now Toronto Dominion Bank Pride, Carribbana is now Toronto is now Scotia Bank Carribbean festival, the heat is on, the shit is happening, cutbacks to healthcare, education and good jobs being replaced by part timers,house prices are sky high and rent is inaffordable, publically owned hydro is being sold along with out school, Harpers conservative new budget gives the 1% more tax deductions- right wing policys. For decades I have watched us working , poor, artists lose more and more hospitals, homes, health, services and wars or really they are genocides against poor people in Africa, on Turtle Island, in the middle east, religion is used to grab oil, womens equality is used to grab oil, minerals from land which si turned in to paper$$$$$ of the 1%. In all of this we continue because we have unending love to work for a better world for our children our families our, communities and I want to thank you for all you do is for me and for you. I wish you strength and power , and give thanks for you and all the beauty of love kindness and sharing that still eminates from east to west, north to south , sky and water.

Wimmin in JAIL UPDATE

I was at the jail 2 days ago and a young women said shey was wrong. I said she was perfectly human and i learned this from Dionne Brand to whom I am eternally grateful. to be human is to make mistakes so to be perfectly human is to make a mistake as we all do. This is the last year I will recieve any funding for the prison arts program which I will continue to do out of my own pocket and with the help of family , friends like you. Comrades all, we will expand. I will continue because I cannot bear not to see and know the joy of women in jail sharing singing , free in that space to just emote, to be . Music is a time for healing and so much more necessary in dire circumstance.

NEWS

1.Patricia Allard has joined me sharing mindfulness, acheiving peace of mind , happiness thropugh positive thinking , I have also been lucky enough to be joined at the jail by Bo Yih Thom a harm reduction councillor.

2.This summer we will be hosting an in the woods women of colour only music, health retreat (September 11th, 12 13th),

3.Gals with Guitar weekend August 7th. 8th. 9th.open

Please contact me at faithnolan@xplornet.com if you wish to registar

Wimmin in JAIL UPDATE

I was at the jail 2 days ago and a young women said shey was wrong. I said she was perfectly human and i learned this from Dionne Brand to whom I am eternally grateful. to be human is to make mistakes so to be perfectly human is to make a mistake as we all do. This is the last year I will recieve any funding for the prison arts program which I will continue to do out of my own pocket and with the help of family , friends like you. Comrades all, we will expand. I will continue because I cannot bear not to see and know the joy of women in jail sharing singing , free in that space to just emote, to be . Music is a time for healing and so much more necessary in dire circumstance.